Kamila Valiyeva won.

Kamila Valiewa is allowed to walk.

And Kamila Valiewa will not get a medal in Beijing.

Should the best figure skater this Tuesday (11.08 a.m. CET in the FAZ live ticker for the Olympics, on ZDF and on Eurosport) in the short program and on Thursday (11.08 a.m. CET in the FAZ live ticker on the Olympics, on ARD and on Eurosport) in the freestyle doing what everyone expects of her – skating phenomenally – she will be waiting for medals at the end of the Beijing Olympics along with 32 other figure skaters.

Christopher Becker

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Because Kamila Valeryevna Valiyeva from Kazan on the Volga, 15 years old, European champion, the highest rated skater in figure skating history, skates as phenomenally as everyone expects of her, so if she deserves gold, silver or bronze, the International Olympic Committee ( IOC) will also wait until the completion of all legal proceedings regarding Valiyeva's doping test from the Russian Championships on December 25 before distributing medals in the women's competition.

It was already clear before the CAS ad hoc panel announced its award on Monday that the award ceremony for the team competition in Beijing would not work out.

In addition to Valiewa, five other Russians, nine Americans, eight Japanese and six Canadians are waiting - depending on the strength of the team.

The Canadians would move up to third place if the Russians were disqualified for doping.

"This is a huge disappointment"

So the gloomy doping shadow over these winter games and their figure skating competitions did not disappear on Monday, on the contrary.

There are the Americans who are on the barricades within minutes of the decision being announced.

“Athletes have a right to know that they are competing in a fair competition.

Unfortunately, they are denied that right today.

This appears to be another chapter in the systemic and pervasive disregard for clean sports in Russia,” said US Olympic Committee Chairwoman Sarah Hirshland.

The IOC is hoarding its medals and keeping dozens of athletes waiting.

It was a "huge disappointment," said American ice dancer Madison Hubbell at noon when she just finished third in the individual competition with Zachary Donohue.

“It's not at all the same to get them anywhere else.

I feel sorry for the teammates who are being deprived of experience.”

The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), in turn, accuses the CAS referees of not having applied the rules of the World Anti-Doping Code when they apply the provisional ban that inevitably follows a positive doping test for adult athletes , do not reinstate.

The CAS had argued that for "protected persons", i.e. under 16-year-olds, the rules did not define whether a provisional ban was mandatory.

The referees then ruled based on "fundamental principles of fairness, proportionality, irreparable harm and the balance of interests between the claimant and the Athlete."

WADA, in turn, sees the cardinal error in the question of why the result from the Stockholm laboratory was only communicated on February 8, one day after the end of the Olympic team competition, also made it clear: The Russian anti-doping agency RUSADA has Valiyeva's sample not marked as Olympic-related cargo to be treated as a priority.

Coincidence?